Comments on: Pre-release Program for Upcoming Patch Releasehttp://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/
This is the official blog of Adobe (Acrobat) Reader for Unix Platforms. It attempts to bring the developers of Adobe Reader for Unix closer to the users. Stay tuned to this space for developer stories, release announcements, user experiences and more!Fri, 15 May 2009 02:22:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Jim Dauvenhttp://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-296
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:38:04 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/acroreaddev/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-296I have installed Adobe Reader version 7.0.9 on AIX 6.1 and have a working Firefox browser (using it for this message). What I need now is a flash player. A lot of web pages won’t run corretly with out the flash player.

Yes. Adobe Reader 8.1.2 should work with GTK 2.4 on Solaris 10. Look out for the release announcement, now just a few days away.

Gaurav

]]>By: Chris Shevethttp://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-294
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:57:55 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/acroreaddev/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-294Can we get this release compiled with GTK 2.4
so that it will actually run on the Solaris 10
distribution? Please?
]]>By: Zbigniew Luszpinskihttp://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-293
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:44:28 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/acroreaddev/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-293The most missing feature for me is “2D GPU acceleration”. I have Athlon64 3000+ and I’m sure AR8 could be faster. There are some interfaces, APIs which may be useful for this purpose: OpenGL/GLX 2.1.2 or XRender acceleration. Nvidia, AMD (ATI) and Intel have very speedy OpenGL on Linux platform so why not use this GPU powerhouse for AR8 turbo mode. Adobe Flash Player 9,0,115 for Linux already uses OpenGL/GLX for video acceleration so this Linux API looks to be familiar to Adobe.

Also compiling AR8 binaries for i686 platform or higher could increase speed. The present AR8 i486 platform is a little bit funny and archaic when an user imagines how ill must be person trying to use AR8 on genuine Intel 486 CPU with few Megabytes of RAM.
Most Linux distributions are compiled nowadays for i686 so AR8 should also be on this level. This is not very hard to do: just add -march=i686 parameter to other gcc compilation options.

]]>By: Tobiashttp://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-292
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:45:58 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/acroreaddev/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-292I’ve not received a reply from Anupam after I sent him email that I want to participate. Is this a silent sign-up?
]]>By: Michael Laajanenhttp://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-291
Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:39:24 +0000http://blogs.adobe.com/acroreaddev/2007/12/04/prerelease_program_for_upcomin/#comment-291Hi there,

Great news, and we really hope that this patchrelease will include a Solaris 10 AMD port since we all that uses S10 on AMD are getting very sick of the Gnome clone.